One of the Pacific's most significant artists, Pule was born in 1962 on the island of Niue and moved to New Zealand in 1964.

From the mid-1990s, his powerful, enigmatic, and personal paintings attracted great interest, and his work came to be widely shown.

Famously inspired by hiapo, the innovative barcloths of nineteenth-century Niue, Pule has communicated through his work a fascination with Polynesia’s past and present, but his work ranges far more widely, responding to tribal culture as well as environmental and social issues of our time.